In the course of recent years, we’ve been steady in saying that Pixmas, even the section level models, are alluring as inkjet printers go. The Pixma MX522, an exemplary reflexive dark Pixma 3D shape, is no special case. Basically, aside from a space on the left side that gave access to the memory-card hatch on the past model (this Pixma doesn’t bolster memory cards), the MX522 resembles the MX512.

The measurements are distinctive, however: At 18.1 inches over, it’s right around two inches more extensive, and at 15.2 crawls profound, it’s barely short of three inches littler from front to back. What’s more, at 7.9 crawls high, it’s a small amount of an inch taller. It weighs only 19 pounds, which makes it inadequate ounces lighter than its ancestor.

What this indicates is a minimized, light AIO that will fit easily pretty much anyplace—your desktop, underneath low-hanging racks or cupboards, a jumbled ledge. Its trim profile makes finding a spot for it simple, as does its backing for Wi-Fi organizing as well as wired Ethernet and interfacing straightforwardly to a PC by means of USB. In any case, we were disillusioned that this AIO needs bolster for Wi-Fi Direct, a convention for interfacing cell phones to the printer without either gadget being associated with a middle person system. Wi-Fi Direct, which makes it simple to print from portable workstations, cell phones, and tablets on the fly, has ended up standard admission on numerous inkjet AIOs we’ve audited as of late.

Beside Wi-Fi Direct, however, the MX522 bolsters a few other print channels for cell phones, including Apple’s AirPrint, Google’s Cloud Print and its Easy Photo-Print application, which underpins Android and iOS (iPhone/iPad) gadgets alike. You can likewise print from and sweep to USB thumb drives, and associate with PictBridge-consistent gadgets like computerized cameras, by means of a USB port on the lower-left corner of the frame. What’s more, the Pixma MX522 bolsters a convention we hadn’t seen as of not long ago: remote PictBridge. It permits you to print straightforwardly from select remote proficient Canon advanced cameras.

You set up the majority of these alternatives, and additionally design the printer itself, by means of Canon’s 2.5-inch show, which grapples a huge, to some degree occupied control board that traverses the width of the machine, simply under the scanner bed. The control board includes roughly two dozen keys. Curiously, however, unless the machine is in fax mode, the fax number keys are dim (that is, they demonstrate no numbers). That leaves 12 clear keys on the control board more often than not. It’s no major ordeal, however it’s somewhat particular looking.

Much of the time, the LCD essentially shows the aftereffects of the alternatives you initiate with the hard catches—an arrangement that, as we’ve said in regards to a couple of different Pixmas recently, is getting somewhat dusty, contrasted with the enormous, excellent touch screens on some contending models. That is only one more reason, as we said prior, for a major Pixma-line upgrade soon.

The MX522 comes with a 30-sheet programmed archive feeder (ADF), for unassisted duplicating, examining, and faxing of multipage records. The ADF does not, be that as it may, bolster programmed duplexing, which implies it can’t handle two-sided firsts without you flipping them over physically. Auto-duplexing ADFs, as well, have gotten to be normal on multifunction printers, be that as it may, to be reasonable, we don’t see them that frequently on models in this value range.

We do hope to see auto-duplexing print motors, however. These, obviously, permit you to print on both sides of the paper without having to physically flip your pages over. You’d hear us cackling boisterously had Canon left that component off this AIO, however it’s here. Neither of the Pixma MX522’s less-costly kin we said before, the MX452 and the MX392, bolster it, however.

Setup and Paper Handling

Like most AIOs nowadays, Pixmas are anything but difficult to set up and introduce. The Pixma MX522 was no exemption.

Subsequent to expelling an insignificant measure of pressing material, we connected to the printer, and the LCD strolled us through associating with our remote system, introducing the ink cartridges, and stacking the paper plate. After that, the establishment utility on the packaged CD-ROM found the printer on our system and introduced the drivers and utilities. That is about more or less simple.